_Opening Speech Delivered as Candidate of the Socialist Party for
President, at Indianapolis, Ind., September 1, 1904_
_Mr. Chairman, Citizens and Comrades:_
There has never been a free people, a civilized nation, a real republic
on this earth. Human society has always consisted of masters and slaves,
and the slaves have always been and are today, the foundation stones of
the social fabric.
Wage-labor is but a name; wage-slavery is the fact.
The twenty-five millions of wage-workers in the United States are
twenty-five millions of twentieth century slaves.